Is ‘progress’ happiness and relationships or philosophical awareness and self-discipline?
‘What is “progress”?’ asks President Sarkozy, and answers ‘happiness and relationships’. One looks forward to his ‘progressive’ policies. The ancients would have thought him mad.
Greeks and Romans took the view that, far from things getting better, they were getting worse.
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